On Monday, October 04, 2010 10:37:53 Sean Kelly wrote: > Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > > There is still debate on the matter of private methods in interfaces. > > Please bring up in this forum any additional pro and con arguments that > > you might have. > > What debate? Private methods don't get a vtbl entry so I don't see how an > interface could possibly require one, regardless of in-module visibility.
Except that per TDPL private methods are _supposed_ to be in the vtable: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4542 The fact that they don't currently is definitely limiting. Personally, I liked what TDPL said about interfaces and private methods, and I don't know what the debate against them is. It all seemed quite sensible to me. Regardless, however, private methods really should be properly polymorphic. - Jonathan M Davis
